The sudden event scanned by his electronic eyes stimulated Genos's brain with a surge of electrical signals. He unhesitatingly abandoned the pursuit, flashed in front of the girl, and used his metal back to absorb the blow!
"Bang!"
The giant rock paused in mid-air just as it was about to cause a tragedy, and the immense impact also made Genos's body sway, his back armor instantly dented.
"A heroic act? Simply foolish."
Sonic's cold voice rang out behind him. Seizing this opening, he pursued relentlessly.
"Your weakness is too obvious, tin can!"
The purple figure moved with extreme speed, several deadly leg whips and hand chops accurately striking Genos's joints and energy core!
Crack, crack—
The seemingly slender fists and feet unleashed power far exceeding human limits, and Genos's various armor plates shattered!
"Target strength assessment is incorrect, must remove maximum output limit…!"
Genos's mechanical body was damaged in several places. In the nick of time, he threw the giant rock and simultaneously counterattacked with a punch, but failed to inflict equivalent injuries on Sonic.
The next moment, the cyborg of justice leaped up, moving the battlefield away from the still-shaken girl.
Just as he was about to update his tactics, the figure locked in his electronic eyes had vanished at some point!
"What?!"
"Is that all you've got, tin can!"
Sonic, with a naive smile, appeared behind Genos, his hand on the hilt of his sword at his waist. He gave a charmingly evil smile: "This is the end, secret technique—"
"Four Shadow Burial!"
In an instant, four identical Sonics appeared simultaneously around Genos, unleashing deadly sword light from four completely different angles!
The oppressive feeling brought by the high-speed clones caused all of Genos's sensors to emit overload warnings!
—Damn it, I was careless!!
"Pfft!"
Genos's limbs were instantly severed, followed by almost complete loss of signal below his waist!
His cyborg body's upper and lower halves were almost completely separated, with only a few conduits and alloy structures barely maintaining connection. His broken body fell heavily to the ground!
Sonic sheathed his sword and stood, looking at Genos, whom he had instantly defeated, and curled his lips in disdain.
"Too weak, not even a warm-up."
Just as he was about to deliver the final blow to Genos, two figures, one tall and one short, happened to turn the corner of the street.
"Hmm? It's quite lively up ahead."
The duo of bald man and handsome guy were Saitama, who had just finished his Hero Registration exam, and Han Sen, who had met up with him.
Both of them were carrying several bags of supermarket goods, apparently having just gone shopping.
Saitama's gaze was instantly drawn to the exploding shurikens. He looked at the fleeing civilians and the arrogant ninja, and his simple art style instantly became serious.
"This guy… is a bad person."
The moment his words fell, his figure vanished.
Sonic was about to swing his sword when an extreme sense of danger came from behind him, making all the hairs on his body stand on end!
He suddenly turned and jumped, trying to dodge, but instead saw a large fist rapidly enlarging in his pupils.
Time seemed to slow down at this moment.
In the slow-motion close-up, Saitama's fist did not change trajectory, but because of Sonic's instinctive jump, it precisely…
Smashed into the ninja's crotch.
Pfft—
A dull, yet strangely painful sound.
"Ugh… Ah—!!"
Sonic's body instantly hunched like a shrimp, his expression frozen in extreme terror and pain, his eyeballs bulging as if they were about to pop out of their sockets.
In the suddenly slowed time and space, a strong shockwave spread out in ripples, centered on his lower body.
The next moment, he squeezed his legs together, covered his crotch, his facial muscles uncontrollably twitching and contorting, his expression exceptionally pained.
He felt as if something important in his life had shattered.
Genos, lying on the ground unable to move, clearly recorded this shocking scene in his electronic eyes.
The ninja who had almost completely destroyed him was actually instantly defeated by this simple-looking bald man…
In an incomprehensible way?
Genos's golden electronic eyes vibrated wildly.
—No, the truth is not that simple!
Saitama, who also realized something, slightly opened his mouth.
"Ah… Gomen." (Sorry.)
Saitama hadn't expected this outcome. Looking at Sonic, who was so pained he was almost in tears, as a man, he felt a sympathetic tightening in his own backside.
A hint of awkwardness appeared on the face of the egg-like strongman, and he apologized to the other party with utmost sincerity.
He had indeed wanted to stop the other party, but this result…
He didn't want it either.
Meanwhile, Genos, who had been cut in half at the waist, lay on the cold ground, the electronic light in his eyes flickering, his core processor almost crashing due to the mind-boggling scene before him.
His warrior's sixth sense made him realize something was wrong even before the scan results were out.
What kind of speed was that?
His combat system far surpassed the current era, yet he couldn't even capture the starting frame of the opponent's movements!
The powerful ninja who had been showing off and almost completely disassembled him into parts just a second ago.
The next second, he was… instantly defeated by this passing bald man in an almost humiliating way?
This means…
This unassuming bald man was terrifyingly strong!
Just as Genos was deep in shock, a leisurely figure walked over, carrying several supermarket shopping bags, neither fast nor slow.
It was Han Sen.
He even had the leisure to kick away a piece of rubble that rolled in front of him with his toe, then looked down at the regularly battle-damaged cyborg, exclaiming in wonder: "Come, little guy, let me see…"
"Whoa, this young man, he's quite badly hurt."
Genos: "…"
He was about to say that he could contact the doctor's drone for repairs, but what happened the next second completely refreshed his worldview.
Han Sen reached out his hand, fingers spread.
An invisible, immense power transformed into a pale golden light that instantly enveloped the entire area.
Genos's metal arms, thighs, circuit boards, and screws, scattered throughout the street, seemed to be summoned by a supreme will, all defying gravity and floating into mid-air.
"This is… magnetism? No!"
Genos's electronic eyes flashed wildly, analyzing the nature of this power.
—The field strength far exceeds that of conventional electromagnets, and it seems to be… restructuring matter!
At this moment, Genos's shock was beyond words.
However, he only paused for a moment, and those broken body parts, as if endowed with life, automatically returned to their positions and reassembled in the air!
Han Sen's eyes moved slightly, and the "Myriad Manifestation Field," exhibiting strong magnetic properties, instantly activated.
Countless tiny golden arcs of electricity leaped and flickered at the broken interfaces, emitting soft "crackling" sounds.
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